Scientists studying naturally high carbon dioxide coral reefs in Papua New Guinea found that erosion
of essential habitat is accelerated in these highly acidified waters, even as coral growth continues to slow.
As the Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife, Senator Cardin works to
protect essential habitat such as wetlands and estuaries.
Planting a variety of native plants in our gardens, parks, and public spaces can help us
restore essential habitat for birds and improve our own local ecosystem.
This legislation manages fishery resources, improves innovative catch share programs, and
preserves essential habitat, and in 2011 it implemented limits to end overfishing in all U.S. fisheries.
Human - caused threats, such as bycatch (incidental entanglement in fishing gear); ship strikes; increasing levels of noise from shipping; military and oil and gas industrial activities; coastal development
in essential habitats; and the impacts of oil spills and other ocean pollutants are increasingly a problem for many recovering and threatened populations.
So by cultivating an allotment you are single - handedly helping to
create essential habitats for bees and other wildlife without which our ecosystem would suffer, crop yields would fall and the world would be a poorer place.
«These species are impacted by existing wind energy projects and threatened by potential projects primarily through collisions with wind turbines and associated power lines and towers, and through loss or modification
of essential habitat,» said Hutchins.
Conservation projects
protect essential habitats and preserve threatened species but their impact is felt far beyond the boundaries of the animal kingdom.
This Area is critically important to the ecological integrity of the whole Arctic Refuge, providing
essential habitats for numerous internationally significant migratory species.
Protected areas that once seemed adequate may not include what turns out to be
essential habitat.
Under its terms, listed species are protected from actions «authorized, funded or carried out» by the federal government that may jeopardize their continued existence or adversely affect
their essential habitat.
«The walrus's
essential habitat is melting under its very feet.»
«The protection of California's Bay - Delta system will continue to be a top priority for maintaining the state's agricultural economy, water security to tens of millions of users, and
essential habitat to a valuable ecosystem,» said USGS Director Marcia McNutt.
Coastal wetlands in Louisiana are economically and esthetically important by providing storm protection, flood control, and
essential habitats for a myriad of wildlife.
With exclusive hikes discovering the parks» hidden gems, environmental lectures, as well as supporting the Bay Area's national treasures, protecting
essential habitat, and providing educational and leadership opportunities for the next generation, this is a gift that keeps giving.
The preservation of
this essential habitat along with the monitoring of this species is critical for the continued health of the California brown pelican population.
This, in turn, provides rare Ornate box turtles, regal fritillary butterflies, grasshopper sparrows, and other species
the essential habitat they need to survive.